Primary

by RICKY KIM / 10.27.2017

directed & written by NEAL BLEDSOE / story by THE EDITORS OF MONROWE

Anyone who’s ever had a long-term romantic relationship knows that it is a web of conflicting emotions: hope, expectation, denial, withholding, affection, boredom. This is a simple fact of proximity, one that applies to all people regardless of who you are or where you draw your personal boundaries.

According to a recent study, one in five Americans have been in a non-monogamous relationship. In his new film, Primary, director Neal Bledsoe examines the emotionality of this arrangement through a series of tangled memories (and fantasies) shared between two people. Here, an encounter is not merely an encounter. Rather, every moment is a seed filled with infinite potential, which inspires and paralyzes.